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Using the leaves and trimmings from around your yard is one of the best ways to recycle and add vital nutrients to your garden beds. It's low cost, efficient, and moisture retentive. Additionally, these can be used as mulch and compost! Keep in mind, the number of leaves and trimmings available can change from year to year and season to season. So you might have plenty one time but not enough the next. There also may be stray grass or weed seeds that get in there and introduce unwanted plants into your garden. Attach these hanging planters to sturdy hooks, or string them along sturdy wires as part of a vertical gardening scheme to make the most of your space, inside or out. This could be extremely useful in an emergency situation, and might also have potential for use in a greywater system, so you can use greywater from your home in your garden. Knowing how to grow lavender is a useful skill. Lavender is a beautiful and useful flower to add to your garden. It has many different uses, due its beauty, soothing scent, and delicious flavor. Aside from the ways it benefits us directly, lavender also attracts many beneficial insects and is an excellent addition to pollinator gardens.

Nettles, for example, provide one common plant fibre that you could consider making use of around your homestead. 31. To Dye Fabrics With Home-Made Plant Dyes Lavender is easy to grow indoors and out, making it a great fit for practically any garden or living situation. Want to get started growing your own lavender? Here's everything you need to know to grow it from seed!Fish and meat can be added to compost, but they smell when breaking down and often attract animals. Cooking them first reduces the smell and helps them break down faster. Nonetheless, you may be able to separate the clay from your garden soil, so that you have a purer material that can be used, for example, in a range of craft projects. So, whether you buy them new, or, better yet, reuse, recycle or re-purpose ones that were used as containers for something that you bought, they can be very useful things to have around.

Breeding mealworms could be a sustainable way to supplement the diet of your poultry, or to use as fish food in an aquaponics system, or as a treat for garden birds. Step 2: Add a layer of green material, such as fresh lawn clippings, vegetable scraps, or even some fruit peels. More often than not, the soil you want to plant your garden in will need to be amended. This simply means you need to add some things to it to make ideal growing conditions for your plants. Almost always, this means adding compost. However, with so many types out there, you might get confused when standing in front of all those bags at the garden center. So what options do you have, and what are they made of? According to Section 116125 of the California Health & Safety code, California citizens aren’t just allowed to trap rats and mice, they are encouraged to for health and safety concerns: “Every person possessing a place that is infested with rodents, as soon as their presence comes to his or her knowledge, shall at once proceed and continue in good faith to endeavor to exterminate and destroy the rodents, by poisoning, trapping, and other appropriate means, and to abate the conditions listed in Section 17920.3 that are causing the infestation.” Once you start using your compost bin regularly, you might run out of space to add more scraps. If your compost is ready to use, then you can apply it to your garden to free up more space. Here's what you should do if your bin fills up before your compost is good to go:In 2014, she and her husband moved to their forever home in the country. She graduated from allotment gardening to organically managing 1/3 of an acre of land, including a mature fruit orchard,which she has turned into a productive forest garden. The yield from the garden is increasing year on year – rapidly approaching an annual weight in produce of almost 1 ton. Perlite is an all-natural substance made from lava. It is super-heated and “popped” to become the light, popcorn like looking substance. Calm down, now you know and hey I respect it if you don’t want to kill them and hope you alleviate your problem same as the rest of us that came here. Please just bear in mind that your ethics aren’t the same as mine just like mine differs from the other 2 posters and just because you said ‘inhumane’ doesn’t inherently make your stance the moral high ground and serve as justification to tell others they are wrong. This means that (as long as rainwater where you live is sufficient) your garden will receive a consistent flow of water even while you are away from home.

Another cool DIY project involves pulping down paper and card to make your own recycled paper for wrapping presents, for letter writing, or for other purposes. Container gardening continues to grow in popularity each and every year. Not only does it allow those who might not have the space or time for a big garden the opportunity to grow, it’s also a great way for gardeners with physical restrictions or limitations to enjoy it as well. You need to be careful with this code, since most #7s are not recyclable. This is because it is a “catch-all” code, where any plastic that doesn’t fit into any other category gets assigned to be a #7. It may be a bio-plastic, that is made from plant-based materials like corn, and actually be food-safe, but there isn’t a sure way to tell from the recycling code alone. These non-gasketed lids include a tear strip and are made of HDPE resin, a food-grade material. This is a good choice for applications where a tighter seal isn’t as necessary. Non-gasketed lids are also easier to apply than gasketed lids. Dimensions: 12.28" diameter x 1.41" height. With plenty of depth and circumference for soil space and growing area, it allows a big range for growing – from all kinds of vegetable plants, to beautiful annuals, perennials, herbs and more.When she is not gardening, Elizabeth spends a lot of time working remotely on permaculture garden projects around the world. Amongst other things, she has designed private gardens in regions as diverse as Canada, Minnesota, Texas, the Arizona/California desert, and the Dominican Republic, commercial aquaponics schemes, food forests and community gardens in a wide range of global locations. Since they are waterproof, they will catch all the drips, and as long as you do not over-water, herbs, salad leaves and other plants can do great in them.

In addition to designing gardens, Elizabeth also works in a consultancy capacity, offering ongoing support and training for gardeners and growers around the globe. She has created booklets and aided in the design of Food Kits to help gardeners to cool and warm climates to grow their own food, for example. She is undertaking ongoing work for NGO Somalia Dryland Solutions and a number of other non governmental organisations, and works as an environmental consultant for several sustainable companies.

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